Brazilians eat turkey on Christmas Eve, but not in the traditional North American style. Along with turkey, they serve rice, Brazil nuts, and a variety of fruit.

Germans often serve fruity Stollen cake, along with a mulled wine called Gluehwein. Stollen is traditionally baked to have a hump, symbolizing the humps of the camels that carried the wise men to see Jesus.

Italians celebrate Christmas by making a meal they call the "Feast of Seven Fishes," which features many different seafood items, like calamari, cod, anchovies, and clam linguine.

France also serves seafood for Christmas, during the traditional Le Réveillon celebration. Meals usually feature lobster, oysters, and foie gras.

In Sweden, a rice pudding, or Risgrynsgröt, is served during Christmastime. One of the bowls will have an almond submerged in its center, and the lucky one who gets it will have good luck for the rest of the year.

In Costa Rica, locals usually eat pork tamales on Christmas, many using recipes passed down through generations.

If you like your meat raw and putrefied, you should visit Greenland on Christmas. There, they eat raw pieces of whale skin and blubber — known as Mattak — as well as Kiviak, uncooked meat of the Auk bird, which is then stuffed in a seal carcass and buried for months until it decomposes.

In Ethiopia, locals eat a "doro wat," a chicken stew served with flat bread. Forget the forks and knives, because like with many Ethiopian meals, you eat this with your hands.

It's summer during Christmas in South Africa, so locals head to the Braai, an African grill, to cook up lamb, turkey, and pork.

It's summer in Australia, too, so residents have a Christmas barbecue, cooking turkey and lamb. They also eat grilled prawns, like the ones below, in a longstanding tradition called "shrimp on the barbie."